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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (64957)	8/28/2004 5:00:47 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793964

But what else did he have to run on? A consistently dovish and quite mediocre Senate career? Mediocrity has hardly been an obstacle to success in recent elections. It's hard to imagine a more mediocre career than Bush's, and he won. Kerry needed to pretend to be a sober moderate, and to base his campaign around the undeniable fact that he isn't Bush. There's a widespread, if largely inaccurate, perception of economic malaise in play, advanced by the ease of comparison to the bubble years. He could have played effectively on that, and he could have played effectively on the way Iraq and Afghanistan have been handled. A sober argument that the administration has tried to do the right thing the wrong way could have worked for him there. It has not been a very impressive campaign.